Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
1746 places
Kraków
Collegium Maius at 15 Jagiellońska Street is the oldest surviving building of Jagiellonian University and the home of the UJ Museum. The Gothic complex centres on an arcaded courtyard and preserves the Libraria, professors’ dining room, tr…
Kraków
**Kazimierz in Kraków** is a historic district between the Old Town and the Vistula, known for centuries of coexistence between Christian and Jewish traditions. The former town, chartered in 1335, retains its own urban layout, squares, chu…
Kraków
**Corpus Christi Basilica in Kraków’s Kazimierz district** is a Gothic-Baroque church of the Canons Regular of the Lateran and one of the neighbourhood’s most important landmarks. Its foundation is associated with Casimir the Great around…
Kraków
On the Main Market Square stands one of the oldest masonry churches in Kraków — St. Adalbert's, with walls dating from the 11th century. It was built when a trade route still ran through this spot, which is why today you descend into it fr…
Kraków
At **24 Szeroka Street** stands the oldest preserved synagogue in Poland and one of the most valuable monuments of Jewish sacral architecture in Europe. This Gothic-Renaissance, two-aisled hall served as the main synagogue of Kraków's Jewi…
Podzamcze
The Trail of the Eagles' Nests links Kraków with Częstochowa along a **163.9 km** red-marked route through the limestone outliers of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. On the way it passes **12 major strongholds** — from Korzkiew and Ojców via…
Warszawa
**More than 12,000 animals** on **40 hectares** by the Vistula — that is today's Warsaw Zoo on the Praga side, opened to the public on **11 March 1928**. It bears the name of Antonina and Jan Żabiński: the director who hid Jews in the gard…
Warszawa
The University of Warsaw Library Garden is one of Powiśle's most unusual free attractions. Green terraces climb onto the roof of the modern BUW building at 56/66 Dobra Street, while bridges and the viewing terrace look towards the Vistula,…
Kraków
**Piłsudski Mound in Kraków** stands on Sowiniec, in the heart of Wolski Forest. It is about 35 metres high and the largest of Kraków’s mounds. Raised between 1934 and 1937 to commemorate Józef Piłsudski, it contains soil from battlefields…
Kraków
**Skałka in Kraków**, the Basilica of St Michael the Archangel and St Stanislaus Bishop, is one of Kazimierz’s best-known landmarks. Tradition identifies this as the place where Bishop Stanisław of Szczepanów died in 1079. The basilica and…
Wrocław
Wrocław Market Square is one of the largest medieval squares in Europe: **204 by 170 metres**, **3.64 ha** of buildings around a central block with the Gothic Town Hall. The city was founded around **1232** by Henry the Bearded, and the fi…
Kraków
The Juliusz Słowacki Theatre opened on **21 October 1893** as the Municipal Theatre — an eclectic, neo-Baroque 'Kraków opera' designed by Jan Zawiejski and modelled on Viennese theatre buildings. It took barely two years to build, and the…
Łódź
Piotrkowska is the **4.2-kilometre** spine of Łódź, laid out in **1821** as the main axis of a new industrial city — today it ranks among the longest commercial promenades in Europe. Along this single axis stand the townhouses of factory m…
gmina Niegowa
Bobolice Castle was built by Casimir the Great in **1350–1352** as part of a chain of strongholds guarding the border with Silesia. It stands on a rocky hill **360 m a.s.l.**, its white limestone walls crowned with battlements standing out…
Żywiec
Lake Zywiec is a reservoir on the Sola river covering **10 km2**, created in **1966** by the construction of a dam at Tresna. It stretches up to **6.6 km** in length, reaches a depth of **26.8 m**, and its shoreline measures **33.7 km**. T…
Świdnica
**The Cathedral of St Stanislaus and St Wenceslaus in Świdnica** is a Gothic church on St John Paul II Square and one of the city’s most important landmarks. Its tower is 101.21 metres high, among the tallest church towers in Silesia. The…
Wrocław
**The Garrison Church in Wrocław**, the Minor Basilica of St Elizabeth, dominates the western side of the Market Square. For centuries the Gothic church served the city’s patricians; today it belongs to a military-civil parish. Its main vi…
Warszawa
**Warsaw’s Seminary Church**, officially the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Joseph, is a Baroque landmark on Krakowskie Przedmieście. It is a quieter, often overlooked stop on the Royal Route, with a striking Cl…
Sandomierz
**The Church of St James the Apostle in Sandomierz** is the oldest surviving church in the town and one of Poland’s most valuable examples of Romanesque-Gothic architecture. The Dominican church stands on Holy James Hill above the Vistula,…
Kraków
Las Wolski covers **419 hectares** in western Krakow, clothing the highest hills of the Sowiniec ridge: Sowiniec (**358 m above sea level**), Pustelnik (352 m) and Srebrna Gora (317 m). In **1917** the area was bought by the City of Krakow…
Bohoniki
In the Podlaskie village of Bohoniki stands one of the oldest active mosques in Poland — a wooden mosque built most probably in **1873**, in a village inhabited since the 17th century by descendants of Tatar settlers. Next to it lies the m…
Poznań
The Imperial Castle in Poznań is one of the youngest castles in Europe — and its story is full of paradoxes. Built in **1905–1910** for **Wilhelm II**, the last German emperor, to a design by **Franz Schwechten** shaped by the Kaiser's own…
Grodziec
Grodziec Castle stands on an isolated basalt hill, **389 m above sea level**, and for nearly 900 years it has dominated the Kaczawskie Foothills. The first written record comes from a papal bull of Hadrian IV dated **23 April 1155**, and b…
Rudno
The ruins of Tenczyn Castle rise on the cone of an extinct volcano — Castle Mountain (398 m), the highest point of the Tenczynek Ridge, 24 km from Kraków. The first mention of "in Thanczin" dates to **1308**; around **1319** the castellan…